In the short story Greenleaf the main character, Mrs. May who is a women, is exhausted of doing all her labor because she just knows it wont that the work she does isnt guna be used for long. She is also not nice to kids because of all the people who are are very self-centered that are around her in her town. she is married but he isnt around much. In the story she says stuff like, "If it had been my boys," he would have said, "they would have cut off their right arm before they would have allowed their maw to . . . .".Also the bull in the story might represent the Mr. May when he is not there